Twitter Hack – Brain Twitter Interface for Locked-in Syndrome or a Spinal Cord Injury

April 25th, 2009

WOW!  Twitter can now officially be twitted using your brain!  NitroLab of University of Wisconsin has figured out a way to write tweets using the human brain waves.  The whole process is rather cumbersome but it’s a viable solution for those with Locked-in syndrome or a spinal cord injury to communicate online with the world.

The 140 characters of Twitter really allows this device to be the perfect interface as writing a letter can take a second or two as seen in the video.

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Video demo of writing, “Spelling with my brain” @uwbci.

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Tim O’Reilly on Twitter

April 25th, 2009

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Here’s an interesting video from Tim O’Reilly on Twitter, pre-order his book here.

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Twitter #hashtags Trend Tracking – #hashtags!

April 25th, 2009

#hashtags is another cool Twitter Trend tracking app that lets you track and graph your favorite hashtags. (Hashtags are any words that begin with the pound(#) symbol)

This would be very useful for tracking which hashtags Twitters have been using the most in the last month or so.

You can also subscribe to your favorite hashtag trends via RSS, another cool feature for tracking your online brand.

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Geo-Location Twitter Trend Tracking – Monitter!

April 25th, 2009

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Monitter is another really cool Twitter Trend tracking tool that lets you only track a specified location such as 10 miles within San Francisco.

I find this very helpful in finding other new Twitters that might live close to me.

For example, if I am a local plumber, I might want to utilize this tool to network with all the plumbers within 25 mile range of San Francisco.

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Long Term Twitter Trend Tracking – Twopular!

April 25th, 2009

Twopular is another cool Twitter Trend tracking site that let’s you see which terms have been popular on Twitter in the last 2 hours, 8 hours, 24 hours, week, month, and total-ever.  I find Twopular very helpful in analyzing what has happened in the past.  For example, in the last 30 days, we can see that Easter, Earth Hour, and Oprah were pretty darn popular.

Twopular started as a pure “let’s surf a bit on the twitter wave” project. And actually, this status hasn’t really changed yet and I am still not sure what’s the real use of it. Maybe its all about amusing people by listing them as top trendsetter – not too bad. In any case for now I will keep the elephant running, hope he makes some friends out there and he will let me know one day where he wants to go.

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Twitter Trend Tracking – Twist

April 25th, 2009

Twist is another great app for tracking Twitter trends via friendly graphs that will sorta tell you when Twitters are twittering about a certain topic the most during a period of 7 days or 30 days.

I personally found that Twist is great for tracking “major” Twitter trends, it’s not too helpful if you run a small-business or you need detailed graphs on your niche brand.

This is a great way to predict which Twitter trends will become popular in the next week so I think it will be very useful especially on holidays when people might tend to buy stuff for their loved ones. (Internet Marketing tip)

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Google Employee Dustian Diaz Moves to Twitter!

April 25th, 2009

Perhaps the rumors that Twitter is the next Google and will replace e-mail in year 2015 isn’t too far off as more and more Google employees are moving to Twitter.

Ded, or Dustin Diaz, is another such Google employee who has defected himself to Twitter and twitted this:

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I think it’s too early to tell if Twitter will be the next Google or not but certainly if Twitter keeps employee-napping Googlers, Twitter just might become the next Google.

According to Googlers:

“It’s kind of shocking we couldn’t keep him,” another Googler tells us, calling Diaz “one of the best frontend developers around.” But of course, Twitter is the hot new company, just like Facebook was months back when it was stealing employees left and right from larger companies — like Google.

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Twitter Hack – How to Supersize Your Firefox with GreaseMonkey Twitter Script – Troys!

April 25th, 2009

Here’s a really neat and helpful Firefox GreaseMonkey script that will allow you to enjoy the web version of Twitter more just like Twhirl or TweetDeck, it’s Troys Twitter Script.

Aside from being able to do most tedius things like RT faster, the Troys script allows you to follow your friends’ tweets closer with functionalities like name expansion, URL expansion, searchbox, and a whole lot more.

If you like to twitter via the web and Firefox, I highly suggest you give Troys Twitter Script a try.

Troy’s Twitter script, in our opinion, is crazy awesome. If you find yourself in a memory crunch and prefer not to use a standalone Twitter application, and use Firefox, this script is a must-have. In fact, it’s too bad that Greasemonkey scripts really only work well in Firefox, because it sure would be great to have all these features in every browser out there. To that end, you can try using Greasemetal (covered here) for Chrome, or GreaseKit for Safari on Mac OSX.

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Paper Twitter!

April 19th, 2009

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I don’t think this paper Twitter comes close enough to mimicking the real Twitter but heck, this is the best Paper Twitter I’ve seen one so far, it even comes with “tags”…which is weird.

Don’t forget to check out the Paper E-mail too, hilarious.

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Do NOT OPEN StalkDaily Links on Twitter, It’s a worm!

April 11th, 2009

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About 3 to 4 hours ago, I started receiving bunch of tweets from numerous other twitters warning about StalkDaily (www.stalkdaily.com DO NOT OPEN!) Worm, and to not click on the link as you will download a worm, which will take over your Twitter account.

Ultimately, the infected computer will relay messages to go to StalkDaily website.  (DO NOT GO!)

It seems that it has pretty much died down now as the Twitter @spam team has acted with countermeasures but you should still be careful and do not visit StalkDaily website until next year! :)   No just kidding, just wait until everything settles down.

This news is so critical that Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch have them on their front page since couple hours ago.

We should figure out who’s really behind this as StalkDaily website owners claim it’s not them, FBI should be contacted shortly.

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